US urged to correct its non-market practices: FM spokesperson

The United States should correct its economic coercion, unilateral sanctions, long-arm jurisdiction, and other non-market practices, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here Monday.

According to reports, on June 9, the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan jointly released a statement, emphasizing their concern that trade-related economic coercion and non-market-oriented policies and practices threaten the multilateral trading system and harm relations between countries.

They also expressed concern about pervasive subsidization, anticompetitive practices by state-owned enterprises, forced technology transfer, and government interference with corporate decision-making. The six countries also said that they are seriously concerned about the use of forced labor, including state-sponsored forced labor, in global supply chains.

Spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a daily news briefing that the statement is made by the United States together with its Five Eyes allies and Japan, but every sentence in it reads like a description of the United States itself.